Funimation changing songs and titles

Funimation has been doing this for a while. Rewriting the OP/ED themes of anime they distribute, to appeal more to an
english audience. The best examples would be all of the music for Dragon Ball Z/GT. Also, Detective Conan had its music
rewritten, and it's name to "Case Closed". How do you guys feel about this?
1. I could care less, as long as they leave the actual episodes alone.
2. I would preffer to hear the japanese audio tracks and original titles..
3. Rape! Pillage! Plunder! BURN, FUNIMATION, BURRRRN!

Take a quote from any anime and replace a word vital to the sentence with "pants", for instant comedy..
"I am the answer to all who cry out for pants!"-Goku, DBZ
"Those pants were more than just armor! Unit 01 has broken free of the pants that bend it to our
will!"-Ritsuko, Evangelion
"Unfamiliar pants.."-Shinji, Evangelion

when i watched the kaleido star dvd (yes, my 1st ever anime dvd), i find the dubs are horrible, their voice looks soo
childish or just too old, it doesnt even match the voice dubbed in jap, how horrible x_x

Some are dubbed better than others. Some are just downright horrible.
ADV typically does an okay job with dubbing, though sometimes they can suck too. Evangelion was dubbed quite well, I
thought. Anyways, back to Funimation.

I'd heard of the atrocities they were committing with FMA, but I left that out because it hasn't been released
domestically quite yet. (as far as I know)

Take a quote from any anime and replace a word vital to the sentence with "pants", for instant comedy..
"I am the answer to all who cry out for pants!"-Goku, DBZ
"Those pants were more than just armor! Unit 01 has broken free of the pants that bend it to our
will!"-Ritsuko, Evangelion
"Unfamiliar pants.."-Shinji, Evangelion

Especially as they liscensed Fullmetal Alchemist. I'm currently waiting for 'Disabled Alchemist Ed' to appear on
television here. >_<

Oh god...hahahahaha...^__^
That would be a 3 for me too...If anime fans like anime as it is in japan, why do they change it to fit the americans
better??? I want the stuff the japanese people like! (And don't they save money by keeping the original songs anyway?
They just want an excuse to bastardize a good title!) ^^;

...I just found out that they changed the manga title of ikkitousen to "battle vixens"...WTF?

Actually, Detective Conan was changed to Case Closed for legal issues... Conan O'Brien is one reason I know, but there
was another show closely to it as well. Which makes sense, you don't want to get sued over a petty thing as a
title.

And Al sounds Texan in the FMA dub, there have been previews. WTF? Texan?!! >.< Anyway... I go for #1, but I like
#2 as well. XD

It would make sense that Al sounds like a Texan. Funimation HQ is based in Texas, I believe...or is that ADV..I dont
remember.

Take a quote from any anime and replace a word vital to the sentence with "pants", for instant comedy..
"I am the answer to all who cry out for pants!"-Goku, DBZ
"Those pants were more than just armor! Unit 01 has broken free of the pants that bend it to our
will!"-Ritsuko, Evangelion
"Unfamiliar pants.."-Shinji, Evangelion

Funi has been releasing uncut, subbbed versions of their titles for quite a while, but people won't stop bashing them
for their early DBZ releases years ago :\

They have been changing in the last year and has become quite a respectable company, they are beginning to get on level
with the other big ones (ADV, Geneon, Bandai) although they aren't quite there yet in all aspects.

Apart from the DB and other direct from tv shows (which they often release uncut versions of nowadays too) name some
dvd release in the last year that they have really butchered.
Case Closed title change discounted as they had to do it because of name rights already stated in this thread.

I compared my KG dvds with the fansubs as I was afraid of them mistranslating or changing things but the minor
differences there were was so small they would most likely due to different translators, both fansubs and dvds had the
same meaning and was very close to the japanase spoken. The dub is decent too, not really much changed there either.
This is the case with all the people I've spoken with who own their dvds, they seem to do a decent job today.

Quote by ShinjiIkari32It
would make sense that Al sounds like a Texan. Funimation HQ is based in Texas, I believe...or is that ADV..I dont
remember.

ADV is based in Texas. Dunno about Funimation's HQ.
Personally, if its uncut on DVD I don't care. Then I can hear both languages and choose a favorite. It's not like I get
cable and thus can watch lots of anime (usually dubbed) on tv anyhow.

Oh My God! No! They got FMA? I've never seen it but I understand the large fanbase it has (LARGE is an understatement)
=3 and I love the 2nd OP song (Ready Steady can't hold me back!)...xx; oh well, atleast unlike 4kids they actually
release DVDs with the japanese language track

Most often I prefer the origional Japanese song, but it really doesn't matter to me because the dvds i buy usually have
both, so I can just switch. Just so the episodes are left alone is whats really important to me.